On 03/31/95 CASKEY wrote to PAUL BERKOWITZ... C > C > We have a customer at our library who says there is a short story by C > Twain about a Storm on the Erie Canal. Can anyone help us with a C > title? C > Thanks much, in advance!! Mary Lou Caskey [log in to unmask] Mary, My Twain's World CD came up with a poem by Mark Twain that might be your customer's target. It's from _Roughing It_ Volume 2, Chapter 10. I attach the beginning stanzas: The Aged Pilot Man On the Erie Canal, it was, All on a summer's day, I sailed forth with my parents Far away to Albany. From out the clouds at noon that day There came a dreadful storm, That piled the billows high about, And filled us with alarm. A man came rushing from a house, Saying, "Snub up ^1 your boat, I pray, Snub up your boat, snub up, alas, Snub up while yet you may." [Footnote 1: The customary canal technicality for "tie up."] Paul Berkowitz ([log in to unmask])